Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately there are many secondary schools , especially in the denominational sector , where this strictly educational approach is not followed . |
| 2 | But how could she ever predict anything where this totally unpredictable man was concerned ? |
| 3 | That is why the amendment is a far , far better thing than this rather grubby amendment we have before us . |
| 4 | But clearly designing involves more than this rather technical definition : we are talking about the ability to shape and unite , to bring together complexes of factors . |
| 5 | In practice , any single investigation will have much stricter data requirements than this rather general list . |
| 6 | Unwisely , as it turns out , the credits display the real thing , which is at least a dozen times better than this carelessly silly concoction . |
| 7 | That would be a much better way forward than this very disappointing statement . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , realization of ( o ) is much more variable than this very idealized representation implies , although ( as even the small amount of data in table 6.4 suggests ) it is certainly constrained by the factors specified . |
| 9 | The Architect and Building News of 10 January 1936 reported : Mr Oliver Hill 's romantic modernism has rarely found a happier destination than this charmingly picturesque house in the woods near Virginia Water . |
| 10 | However , an approach in line with the European authorities requires more than this essentially negative provision . |
| 11 | This is much more than another pretty Japanese coupe for it bristles with tomorrow 's technology . |
| 12 | Craigbarnet had been supported , at considerable inconvenience , by the Montrose interest , mainly in order to please the head of the Stirling family , Stirling of Keir , who was a relative of the Duke of Montrose , but no sooner was Craigbarnet out of the running than another potentially explosive dispute arose which might well have set the Duke of Montrose at variance with Lord Elphinstone or another valuable ally , Dundas of Lethem . |
| 13 | We employ more than 1,500 highly qualified service engineers and have an extensive network of High Street shops . |
| 14 | SOUTH AFRICA is calling up more than 20,000 mainly white army reservists to stamp out violence threatening its transition to democracy and to protect civilians from marauding gunmen . |
| 15 | In return , William was required to recognize that , since the fief he held of the bishop was now larger than those any other lord had bestowed on him , he ought to be ‘ a better man ’ of the bishop than of any of his other lords . |
| 16 | There will always be more than one equally good candidate . |
| 17 | On trying the TL for the first time , more than one recently deafened person has said with astonishment , ‘ The world has come alive again . ’ |
| 18 | As any market matures it tends to split into clearly defined areas , mainly as a result of targeted marketing rather than any particularly identifiable product differences . |
| 19 | Certainly it had a more significant effect on English politics than any purely political event in my lifetime . |
| 20 | Where ownership can not be established , there is neither responsibility nor law ; resource management is likely to fail until some equally sound basis for law can be established . |
| 21 | If this rather delicate visit to John were to be carried out it must be done immediately , before her courage failed . |
| 22 | I wonder if this fundamentally unimportant fact will linger as long in any mention of her as did the pillorying of Anthony Burgess as ‘ The Man Who Reviewed His Own Book ’ some 30 years ago . |
| 23 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 24 | If some sexually frustrated dickhead wants to waste twelve quid on this tripe that 's his problem , but I 'm sure ZZAP ! readers will have more sense . |
| 25 | If such highly centralised decision-making |
| 26 | Additional pellet samples were obtained from single species of vulture , condor , crow and gull , but none provided large enough small mammal samples for analysis . |
| 27 | Many , probably the great majority of the population , were convinced by 1939 if not before that the Jews had been a harmful influence in German society , and that it would be better if those still remaining left ( or were forced to leave ) as soon as possible . |
| 28 | Finally , in October 1119 , the pope had taken the decisive step of consecrating the archbishop of York himself , without any reference to Canterbury 's claim , and it was at last clear that unless some quite new influence could be brought to bear on the question , the primatial position of Canterbury as an active instrument of organization was finished . |
| 29 | Because this conventionally liberal response to the prevailing mood disguises the fact that the them as which arranged themselves around the flogging solution reflected a much more mature retrenchment , and a much more solid base of opinion and material circumstance than is usefully summarised by the word ‘ panic ’ . |
| 30 | That route I always consider one of the best and most adventurous of my climbing career ; most adventurous because this very serious route ( even by today 's standards — or perhaps especially by today 's standards ) was first attempted on sight . |